Paternity Fraud & the Criminal Code of Canada

Paternity fraud: Is it or should it be a criminal offence under the Criminal Code of Canada?

Independent Women's Forum

Feminist organizations including the National Organization of Women (NOW)
has objected to legislation that requires the courts to vacate paternity
judgments against men who arent, in fact, the father.

Think about that. NOW wants some man, any man, to make child support
payments. The woman who doesnt even know who the father is, should not be
held responsible for her actions, is a sweet, loving, blameless mother who
seeks only to care for her child and if naming some schmuck as father who
never saw her before in his life helps her provide for the innocent babe,
well then, that's fine.

Last year, more than 3,000 DNA paternity tests were commissioned by
Australian men, and in almost a quarter of those cases, the test revealed that not only had their partners been
unfaithful, but the children they thought were theirs had been sired by someone else.More ..

DNA: Why the truth can hurt

The Sunday TimesAustraliaMarch 27, 2005

IT sounded too good to be true and it was.

The fairytale that saw Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott reunited with the son he thought he had given up for
adoption 27 years ago, ABC sound-recordist Daniel O'Connor, ended this week when DNA tests confirmed another man had
fathered Mr O'Connor.

The revelations were devastating for all involved, not least Mr O'Connor.

Still reeling from the emotional reunion with his mother, Kathy Donnelly, and Mr Abbott a few months ago, a simple
test of truth has thrown the trio into disarray a situation familiar to thousands of other Australians.

Paternity testing in Australia is a burgeoning industry.

The simplicity of the test cells are collected from a mouth swab grossly underestimates the seriousness of the
situation.
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Fathers May Get Money Back in Paternity Fraud Cases

18 March, 2005
FindLaw, Australia

Proposed new laws will make it easier for fathers to recover child maintenance
payments if DNA testing reveals that they are not the child's father.

The Family Law Amendment Bill 2005 allows people who wrongly believed they
were the parent of a child to recover any child maintenance paid or property
transferred under an order of a court under the Family Law Act 1975 .

"The bill is intended to make it easier for people who find themselves in
this position to take recovery action without the need to initiate separate
proceedings for an order from a court of civil jurisdiction, such as a State,
Local or Magistrates court," Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.
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Men wage battle on 'paternity fraud'

USA TODAY, by Martin Kasindorf, December 12, 2002

An acid sense of betrayal has been gnawing at Damon Adams since a DNA test showed that he is not the father of a
10-year-old girl born during his former marriage.

"Something changes in your heart," says Adams, 51, a dentist in Traverse City, Mich. "When she walks through the
door, you're seeing the product of an affair."

But Michigan courts have spurned the DNA results Adams offered in his motions to stop paying $23,000 a year in child
support. Now, Adams is lobbying the state Legislature for relief and joining other men in a national movement
against what they call "paternity fraud." More ..

One in 25 fathers 'not the daddy'

Up to one in 25 dads could unknowingly
be raising another man's child, UK health researchers estimate.

Increasing use of genetic testing for medical and legal reasons means
more couples are discovering the biological proof of who fathered the child.

The Liverpool John Moores University team reached its estimate based on
research findings published between 1950 and 2004.

The study appears in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Biological father
Professor Mark Bellis and his team said that the implications of so-called
paternal discrepancy were huge and largely ignored, even though the
incidence was increasing.

In the US, the number of paternity tests increased from 142,000 in 1991 to
310,490 in 2001.
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Who's the Daddy?

Up to three million Britons may be wrong
about who their real father is , experts claim. But using DNA paternity
tests to discover the truth can cause its own problems.

BBC, U.K., May 16, 2003

Dad's got blue eyes, Baby brown...

When Tessa found out she was pregnant after fertility treatment, she felt
a mix of delight and doubt.

This wasn't simply pre-baby nerves - she suspected that her husband might
not be the father. For Tessa had started sleeping with a colleague when the
stress of the ongoing treatment became too much.

Keen to build a family with her husband, she let him believe the baby was
his. But her lover threatened to reveal all if she ended the affair, and Tessa
soon fell pregnant again. This time, her lover started to make nuisance calls
to her home.

Tessa had no choice but to tell her husband. "I said to him, 'I've had an
affair and you may not be the father of my children.' So with that, he went
up the stairs, got dressed and left. And that was it," Tessa says in Women Who
Live a Lie, a programme for the BBC's Five Live Report. More..

THERE IS A story I used to find hilarious in my high school years about
a not too bright man. He was light skinned, his wife was of similar hue,
but their first child was born with very dark complexion (darker dan Bello,
blacker dan Blakka).

When the man wondered aloud about the baby's complexion his wife assured
him that the child was born dark because the child was conceived in darkness
(they had sex with the lights off). The man accepted the explanation. Because
he loved his wife dearly, he also ignored the fact that the child had other
obvious signs of resemblance to the young dark skinned man who did their
gardening. To fix the problem, the husband put flood lights, strobe lights,
spotlights and forty other lights in the bed room so there would be no more
darkness to create dark babies.
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"Supporters of paternity
identification bills point to a 1999 study by the American Association of
Blood Banks that found that in 30 percent of 280,000 blood tests performed
to determine paternity, the man tested was not the biological father."
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New Zealand

Lack of DNA Paternity testing abuses Dads and Kids

"The Labour Government is abusing fathers and children by failing to legislate for free DNA testing
to establish paternity", is how Jim Nicolle, spokesperson for the New Zealand Child Support Reform
Network, responds to United Futures call for Family Court Ordered DNA paternity tests. More..

Paternity Fraud - Paternity testing - Infidelity
Statistics

Paternity Fraud and Children's Human Identity Rights

The children's rights movement calls it "child identity fraud". The father's rights movement
calls it "paternity fraud". It's the same thing by a different name. There are 3
primary victims
in cases of paternity fraud: the child, the biological father and the male falsely identified by the mother to be the child's
father. Other victims are the close relatives such as other children
and relatives of the mother, alleged father and the child's
bio-father.

It involves a fraud perpetrated when a woman who knows, or who
should know, or who has reasonable grounds to know the true
biological father of her child, falsely identifies the wrong man as
the biological father of her child.

Child identity fraud is the violation of a child's right to know
his/her own identity and the identity of
his/her father. The child has a right to have a relationship with his/her biological father
and mother as provided for in the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child . It is the
position of the Canadian Children's Rights Council that identity
is an important factor to every Canadian and is also a right under
the security of the person provisions of the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms.

The proper identification of a child also leads to the proper
identification of genetic and other medical diseases for the
lifetime of that person. A parent that has given up his/her
child to be adopted can voluntarily provide major medical illness
information throughout their lifetime to provincial/territorial
adoption registries who act as a repository of such medical
information for the benefit of the adopted child.

It is the position of the Canadian Children's Rights Council that
all Canadians should have major medical illness information about
those donating eggs or sperm under Canada's
Assisted Human Reproduction Act
(2004) or provided
voluntarily by biological parents.

Of related interest is the Assisted Human Reproduction Act
section on health reporting information. It regulates information
provided under the Act respecting the identity, personal
characteristics, genetic information and medical history of donors
of human reproductive material and in vitro embryos, persons who
have undergone assisted reproduction procedures and persons who were
conceived by means of those procedures.

The logical repository of biological parent's medical illness
information is the provincial/territorial vital statistics agency in
the province/territory in which the birth took place and is
registered. It is often the same repository of information about
that same person's death, as well.

We have added an entire section on the Liam Magill paternity
fraud case heard April 7, 2006 by the Australian High Court
(Australia's highest federal court)

This case is important because it was the first case our
researchers have every found which was heard by the highest court of
an important English speaking country. Sources have indicated the
presence of substantial case law on paternity fraud in some French
speaking countries. The Canadian Children's Rights Council welcomes
information about these cases and Internet links to related news
articles and legal databases.

The Liam Magill case involved compensation for damages by a
husband who was a victim of paternity fraud. Under changes
made in 2005 to Australian family law relating to paternity fraud,
he was already entitled to compensation for the cost of raising the
2 victim children during his marriage and child financial support
(child maintenance) paid to the ex-wife after their
separation/divorce.

This case is about a civil lawsuit for other damages unrelated to
the cost of raising these 2 children. Some newspaper reporter are
incorrect. They state wrongly that he sought damages for the cost of
raising the children. More ..

Lover must pay broker for claiming son was his

The Telegraph,
UK, By Amy Iggulden April 4, 2007

A woman who deceived her stockbroker boyfriend into
believing he was the father of her son was yesterday
ordered to pay him more than £22,000 in damages.
A High Court judge ruled that the woman, now 46, had
made "fraudulent representations" to her boyfriend after
lying to him for five years about a one-night stand.
Judge Sir John Blofeld told the court in London that it
was impossible to accept her as "a witness of truth".

In the first known case of its kind to reach trial in
Britain, he awarded the 63-year-old former stockbroker
just over £22,400, including £7,500 to compensate him
for the distress he suffered when he discovered the boy
was not his.

"I am satisfied she intended her fraudulent representations to be acted on by Mr A," the judge said.
"As a result of those fraudulent representations, he
suffered damage."
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Child Support Agency forced to pay back wrongly accused men

The Guardian, U.K., David Hencke, Westminster correspondent, November 28, 2005

The Child Support Agency has had to refund hundreds of thousands of pounds in maintenance payments to more
than 3,000 men after DNA tests revealed that they had been wrongly named by mothers in paternity suits. One
in six men who took a DNA test to challenge claims by women that they were the fathers of their children
were cleared by the results, according to official figures disclosed by the agency.

Under CSA rules, men must start paying maintenance the moment they are named by mothers as the father of
the child. They can challenge the ruling by asking for a DNA test but have to pay for it themselves. More ..

Fathers question paternity

MORE than 22,000 Victorian fathers could be
raising children that are not their own.

The surprise figure comes as rising numbers of
fathers resort to furtive DNA tests, without the child's
mother's consent, to check their doubts.

Paternity experts estimate about 3 per cent of
fathers wrongly assume children are biologically theirs.

That means across the nation almost 92,000 men are not
the true father. In Victoria, that number is almost
23,000.

The 'no paternity' result is even higher among those
whose suspicions lead them to seek out DNA testing.
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Men not ready for paternity test grief

By Karen Kissane, May 20, 2006

MANY men who believe that paternity testing is their "right" and
the best way to find out "the truth" are unprepared for the intense
grief they feel when they discover a child is not biologically
theirs, according to research.

They were devastated and did not foresee that the test might lead to
the ending of their relationship with the child. One father, who had
the testing done secretly, said: "The results ruined my life when my
ex-wife then ordered the child never to call me 'Dad' again. And
worse still, she is never allowed to see me again I still think of
her as my daughter."

For most men who had sought the testing themselves, however, a
negative result meant they felt they now had no financial
responsibility for the child and were no longer fathers in any sense
at all. While they often felt deep loss about a final separation
from the child, "they were all adamant about the value of paternity
testing".
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Parent Trap? Litigation Explodes Over Paternity Fraud

The National Law Journal, U.S.A., Tresa Baldas, April 10, 2006

Paternity fraud is rampant in the United States, triggering
legislation and legal challenges in more than a dozen states,
according to family law attorneys and fathers' rights activists.

At issue: Men claim women are getting away with trickery -- DNA
evidence may show a man is not the father, but the courts are still
forcing him to pay child support anyway.

"This is the new underdog," said Michigan family law attorney
Michele Kelly, who represents mostly men tangled in paternity
disputes. "I was a staunch feminist. I marched with Gloria Steinem.
But the new victims in America are working men. All they are is a
mule train."
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Australian High Court is the 1st national supreme court to hear a paternity fraud
case ( we believe)

Dudded dad wins OK for compo fight

A MAN who found he was supporting two children he had not fathered can continue his fight for compensation.

Liam Magill, 54, hugged his current partner after the High Court yesterday granted him special leave to
appeal against a ruling that he was not entitled to compensation.

During arguments in the case Justice Michael Kirby said the issues of parenthood were important in an age
of DNA testing.

In March, the Victorian Court of Appeal stripped Mr Magill of a $70,000 County Court payout from his
ex-wife, Meredith, on a legal technicality.

Mr Magill had said birth certificates shown to him by his ex-wife led him to believe he was the father of
a daughter and son. More ..

Australia's High Court takes support case

United Press International (UPI), Australia, November 19, 2005

MELBOURNE, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Australia's High Court has agreed to hear the case of a man trying to recoup
tens of thousands in child support he paid for children he didn't father.

Liam Magill had been thwarted in his efforts for six years to get back the money after DNA tests proved two
of three children he thought were his were actually someone else's, The Australian reported Saturday. More ..

Court test for duped fathers in 'DNA age'

The Australian, (Australia's national daily newspaper), by Natasha Robinson, November 19, 2005

A FATHER who was tricked into paying tens of thousands of dollars to his unfaithful ex-wife for two children
that were not his has won the right to take his six-year battle for compensation to the High Court.

A three-member sitting of the court sent Liam Magill's case to the full bench after finding yesterday that
the dispute was an appropriate test of emerging social dilemmas in the "age of DNA" and sperm donation.

Mr Magill was initially awarded $70,000 by the Victorian County Court in November 2002 when he sued his
wife for general damages and economic loss from his payment of child support.

However, his former wife, Meredith Magill, 37, successfully appealed against the decision when the
Victorian Court of Appeal ruled there was no evidence to show she had intended to deceive her then husband
about the paternity of the children. More ..

Paternity fraud penalises the innocent

News Weekly - Melbourne Australia, 13 August 2005, By Babette Francis

Businessmen who are caught committing corporate fraud or insider trading are exposed and punished - with
fines, jail or both - and rightly so. However, women who commit paternity fraud, i.e. deceive their husbands
about the paternity of "their" children, appear to get away with it and seem to have the Victorian Women's
Legal Service and the Child Support Agency on their side, reports Babette Francis.

Paternity fraud not only involves infidelity, but also deception at a most fundamental level of the husband,
the children and the community. Birth certificates need to record accurately who the biological parents are
- not only for legal reasons, but also because medical issues and issues of consanguinity may arise. Here is
the story of the paternity fraud inflicted on Liam Magill. More ..

Human identity is an important to people, especially children. Many people that are victims of paternity
fraud adopted or were created using sperm or egg donors search a lifetime for information about their
biological parents. People that were adopted and who they love their adoptive social parents still often
seek out their biological parents for many good reasons.

Mother's and fathers who gave up their babies to be adopted often later in life seek out their biological
children.

Women are the gatekeepers of human identity and the only parent that can commit paternity fraud.
The Canadian Children's Rights Council gets many emails daily explaining case histories which involve a
pregnant women or a new mother that have a great variety of circumstances which make identifying the father
difficult. No police or government services are available to assist them to support their child's
right to identity.

Women who wish to deny the father and child of a relationship routinely make false claims that they don't
know who the identity of the father.

Other women who have acted irresponsibly don't have sufficient information to identify the father, for a
variety of reasons.

We have even had a number of communications with women that claimed, and we believe truthfully, that they
didn't know they were pregnant until 4 or 5 months into the pregnancy. This added to the problem of
reconstructing the facts relevant to determining paternity.

Technology has changed and so must the laws. A child's parents can be identified 5-12 weeks into a
pregnancy by non-invasive means ( a simple blood test by a simple blood sample taken from the pregnant
woman's arm) compared with dna ( a simple mouth swab ) from her sex partner(s).

DNA paternity testing of a child is done by use of a simple swab of the inside cheek of the child.

Many provincial/territorial governments have penalties of up to $100,000 and 6 month in jail for a mother
who provides false information on the "Statement of Live Birth", the document used to register the baby's
birth with the appropriate provincial/territorial Vital Statistics Registry.

The Director of the Ontario Vital Statistics Registry, Judi Hartman, stated to the Canadian Children's
Rights Council that less than 100 potential violations of vital statistics cases in total are
investigated each year. A portion of these investigations are paternity fraud cases. She could not give one
example of the prosecution of a woman who committed a paternity fraud violation.

The Director advised us that there are approximately 12,800 births in the province of Ontario each year.
Considering a paternity fraud rate of a bare minimum of 10% according The Hospital for Sick Children ( see
the Globe and Mail's article
Mommy's Little Secret ), a Toronto, Ontario world class hospital, there are at least 1,280 new cases of
paternity fraud in that province alone each year.

Based on numerous studies elsewhere, we believe the figure of 16% of the Canadian population being
victims of paternity fraud is more realistic.

We were advised by the Ontario Director of Vital Statistics that police services can and should
investigate paternity fraud under the provisions of the Vital Statistics Act. The Toronto Police
Services and the Peel Region Police Services, 2 of the largest police services in Canada, have refused to do
so. The Peel Police Services did so after contacting the office of the Director of the Ontario Vital
Statistics Registry. The proof submitted to the Peel Police Services fraud squad was a court order from the
Ontario Court of Justice located in Brampton directly across the street from the Police Headquarters where
the fraud investigators are located.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Factors Contributing to Unstated Paternity

"Rates of unstated paternity estimated by First Nations
registration administrators varied widely and averaged 28 percent at the national level".

Paternity fraud fight of husband 'duped for 17 years by wife'

A husband was conned for 17 years by his wife into bringing up her
lover's child as his own, a court heard yesterday.

Mark Webb only found out the truth from DNA tests conducted after the
girl turned 18, it is alleged. He has tried to sue his ex-wife Lydia
Chapman for deceiving him over the paternity of her daughter.

In the first 'paternity fraud' case to reach the Appeal Court, Mr
Webb claimed his former wife and her alleged lover conceived the girl at
a hotel in 1985.
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Mothers must tell the truth

The Australian, (Australia's national daily newspaper) March 23, 2005

IT has been called sex, lies and DNA. That complex web snared Tony Abbott when, on Monday, he revealed that
the son he was reunited with just a few months ago was not his son. Abbott's anguish, his shock and
disappointment, as he faced cameras was only too real. Recall the beaming Abbott when just a month ago he
talked about "my boy" Daniel O'Connor. It is impossible to imagine the even greater torment that O'Connor is
now confronting.

While the Abbott saga has mesmerised the nation, other cases slide under the radar. This is a web that
entraps more men and children than we may care to believe. And when the tangled skein involves deliberate
deceit, the devastation is often worse.

Consider the case of Liam Magill. When his wife Meredith gave birth to two babies, each born with blue
eyes and blond hair, Liam assumed they were his. He had no reason to think otherwise. He signed the birth
certificates as any new father does. He cared for the children, loved them, cherished them as most fathers
do. But Liam's world fell apart when he discovered neither child was his.
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Successful Paternity
Fraud Lawsuit in France

PATERNITY - Scholarly Commentaries - Faculty of Law, Grenoble

198 On the restitution of sums paid for child support: be warned of the results of contesting paternity!

The declarative effect appertaining to the judgment accepting a contestation of legitimate paternity has
retroactively obviated the obligation for child support that was the burden of the first husband of the
mother, inasmuch as the payments he made to provide for the needs of the child were found to be without
foundation. The mother, who had always benefited from the contributions made by her first husband, and the
second husband, father of the child, who benefited from the contributions made on account of the marriage,
must be held to be repaid.

One US study found that 12% of fathers not paying child support did so because they claimed they were not
the father. See US DHHS
Child Support Report - January 1997. The study also found that unemployment and lack of visitation were
major reasons for failure to pay child support.

"A fair percentage of us, it turns out, are not genetically related to the men we grew up with as fathers
anyway. Some physicians doing tissue typing for organ donations estimate that maybe 20 percent of people are
not genetically related to the men who claim fatherhood; others say it is less, perhaps as low as 5
percent."

Men more than women favor paternity testing at birth

Medical Research News, Published: Tuesday, 28-Sep-2004

Substantially more men than women favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born, according to a
recent University of Washington survey, but the surprise to researchers is that the percentage of men
favoring such testing wasn't higher.

"The amazing thing is that the guys are always split 50-50. Age and income groups don't seem to matter,"
said Lisa Hayward, a UW doctoral student in biology and lead author of a paper reporting the findings in the
current issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

The survey showed just 32 percent of women favor such routine testing. The difference in response between
genders remained consistent in spite of marital and income status.
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"In the courts where paternity cases are heard, only a minority of the accused men deny paternity.
This group, therefore, are the only ones who are privileged to request blood tests to sustain their denial.
It has been shown that 30 to 40% of these men who deny paternity are falsely accused. In the majority of
cases heard in the courts, however, the accused man admits paternity and accepts the burden of support
imposed by the court." p.249

"Blood-grouping tests [A-B-O, M-N and Rh-Hr] in 67 cases of uncontested paternity indicate that in 6
cases, or 9%, the men admitting paternity were not the fathers of the children they accepted. Since only 50%
of wrongfully accused men can be excluded by present methods of blood testing, it follows that not 6 but
actually 12 men in this small series who admitted paternity were probably not the fathers of the children in
question." p.250

Husband makes cheating wife pay for time spent raising lover's child

The London Times, London, U.K., from Adam Sage in Paris, May 3, 2005

A FRENCHMAN has won a ground-breaking ruling against his former wife and her lover, ordering them to pay
back the money that he had spent on bringing up a child he had mistakenly assumed to be his own.

The man, named as G in the ruling, was awarded 23,000 (15,600) after a DNA test revealed that he was not
the father of the 13-year-old child, Astrid.

He had raised her as his own daughter, paying for her food, clothing, toys, schoolbooks and holidays, the
Caen Appeal Court in Normandy said. It added that his former wife, B, from Cherbourg, had always had doubts
about the identity of Astrid's father: she was unsure whether it was her husband or her lover.

The judges said that she had committed a "fault" by failing to tell her husband that she had been having an
affair at the time of the conception and that she did not know whose daughter Astrid was.
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Legislature of Saskatchewan passes 2 laws violating a child's rights under the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms while disobeying the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada and violating the U.N.
Convention on the Rights of the Child

Two new laws were passed in June of 2004 in Saskatchewan in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's
decision in Trocuik v. British Columbia (Attorney General).

Saskatchewan is the first province to formulate change to their laws resulting from this Supreme court
decision.

Jeanette Papp of the University of California at Los Angeles, feels that 15 per cent is rate of paternity
fraud for the Western world, even if there is no hard evidence. "It's hard to do studies on these things
for ethical reasons," says Dr. Papp, director of genotyping and sequencing in UCLA's department of human
genetics. "I mean, how do you tell people what you're really looking for?"

A British survey conducted between 1988 and 1996 by Robin Baker, a former professor at the University of
Manchester, confirmed the 10-per-cent figure. That seems high to skeptics such as Dalhousie University
geneticist Paul Neumann, although even he admitted that "my colleague, who's a woman, tells me women have
no trouble believing it. . . . It's the men who can't."

Bernard Dickens, a specialist in health law and policy at the University of Toronto, said that in another
British example, the non-paternity rate was three times that.

"In the early 1970s, a schoolteacher in southern England assigned a class science project in which his
students were to find out the blood types of their parents. The students were then to use this information
to deduce their own blood types (because a gene from each parent determines your blood type, in most
instances only a certain number of combinations are possible). Instead, 30 per cent of the students
discovered their dads were not their biologically fathers. "

1 out of every 6 children in Canada is a victim of Child Identity Fraud / Paternity Fraud. That's 5
million Canadians More..

The British Columbia Vital Statistics Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 479, on their own or in their effect,
discriminates against biological fathers on the basis of sex, by providing biological mothers with sole
discretion to include or exclude information relating to biological fathers when registering the birth of a
child, contrary to s. 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read the whole story, the Supreme Court of Canada decision, newspapers articles and our comments about
how this not only affects fathers but supports children's identity rights.More ..

Doctor at fertility clinic statement about
naturally born children:"These children do not have the right to
find out who their genetic father is. The name on their birth registration certificate is their social
father. If a child conceived through donor insemination is to have the right to know who their genetic
parents are, we should have a discussion about these children too."
- Dr Stewart Irvine, Edinburghs fertility clinic, Scotland, U.K. More ..

Canada's largest national daily newspaper

Mommy's little secret

The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's 2 national newspapers, The article contains info about children's
identity fraud at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. December 14, 2002.

Includes interview with employees of Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who admit
they deny children's identity information to husbands/male partners of mothers who want to hide the real
identity of their child because they had an affair. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of The Child
specifically supports a child's human right to have a relationship with both his/her biological parents. In
addition, this article is proof that The Hospital for Sick Children ("Sick Kids") supports paternity fraud.

Further "Sick Kids" supports a mother's rights only, which they view, supersedes 3 other people's rights,
namely, the rights of the biological father, the rights of the mother's male partner/husband and the child's
identity rights. More ..

About The Hospital for Sick Children.
Affectionately called "Sick Kids", is one of the largest paediatric academic health science centres in the
world, with an international reputation for excellence in health care, research, and teaching.

Newspaper Articles about Children's Identity Rights / Paternity
Fraud

Painless Paternity Tests, but the Truth May Hurt

New York Times, U.S.A., by MIREYA NAVARRO, October 2, 2005,

JOSEPH DIXON said he was not exactly thrilled when his girlfriend of one and a half years told him she
was pregnant. But, Mr. Dixon said, he did not want her to have an abortion and was determined to do the
right thing.

"I told her I'd definitely be there" for her, said Mr. Dixon, 29, a hotel doorman in Chicago. And he was.
The two didn't marry but settled into the common rhythm of separate but shared parenthood, he said, allowing
him to see his daughter whenever he wanted.

But when Mr. Dixon arranged to purchase a life insurance policy to give his 4-year-old daughter financial
security last January, the results of a required DNA test delivered stunning news.
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Australian Associated Press

One in 25 raise another's child: claim

AAP, Australia, Aug 11 2005

One in 25 fathers could unknowingly be raising another man's child, British scientists say.

Researchers at Liverpool's John Moores University examined the findings of dozens of studies, published over
the past 54 years, on cases of paternal discrepancy - where a man is proved not to be the biological father
of his child.

The studies, most of them peer reviewed, came from countries as varied as the United States, Finland, New
Zealand, South Africa and Mexico. More..

The Telegraph

1 in 25 men in dark as they raise others' children

The Telegraph, by Celia Hall, Medical Editor, August 11, 2005

One father in 25 could unknowingly be bringing up a child who is not his own, says new research that
suggests a rise in genetic testing has opened a Pandora's box of sexual secrets and lies.

Genetic testing for diseases in families is growing and can reveal a child's real paternity, leaving
doctors to decide how much to disclose to the family.

One of the authors of the study, Prof Mark Bellis, of the centre for public health at Liverpool John
Moores University, said: "Twenty years ago doctors would have tended not to tell when they came across this
information unless it was important for the health of the child.

"But advances in genetics mean that there is now more pressure for a child to know who his or her
biological parents are." More..

The Telegraph

I had to find out whether I was really the father

The Telegraph, U.K. by Celia Hall, Medical Editor, August 11, 2005

It was a whirlwind romance. Within four months Michael and his girlfriend were hopelessly in love and
discussing a life together and the prospect of children, not immediately, but in the future.

They moved in together then bought a house. Life was very good, said Michael, who asked for his identity
not to be disclosed. "I was infatuated."

But his career in banking took him away from home all the time. He was effectively commuting to France and,
before long, he said, he had reason to believe his girlfriend had not been faithful. "But I was in love and
I put the thoughts to one side.

"Then she became pregnant," Michael said. "It was sooner than we had planned but we had wanted children
together and I was still in love." More..

Duped 'dad' to fight court ruling

The Age, By Peter Gregory, Chief court reporter, April 16, 2005

A Melbourne man who found he was paying maintenance for another man's children is challenging a court
decision that removed a $70,000 damages payout earlier awarded to him.

Liam Neal Magill, 54, has lodged an application for special leave to appeal to the High Court against a
ruling made last month in favour of his ex-wife, Meredith Jane Magill, 38.

Mr Magill took legal action in January 2001 after DNA tests proved he had not fathered two of the couple's
three children. More..

Whose Baby? - Who's your Daddy?

The Australian Magazine - Saturday, 6th November 2004, By Greg Callaghan

More and more Australian fathers are using DNA tests to check the paternity of their children - and
getting results they don't want Greg Callaghan examines the plight of men who receive the heartbreaking news
that the children they have raised are not biologically theirs.

In the thick golden light of a country sunset, Nigel Brown sat hunched on his front doorstep, sobbing
uncontrollably. Glancing back with bloodshot eyes at his four children, aged 6 to 13, running amok inside,
he was hit by the sudden, somewhat surreal recognition that life as he had known it was over. "It was like a
punch in the stomach, the shock of accepting my children weren't really mine at all."
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Ruling alters alimony for divorced dads in Pa. paternity cases

More than five years after William Doran and his wife were divorced in 1995, he says, he began suspecting
their son wasn't really his.

Because the 10-year-old didn't look or act like him, Doran asked his ex-wife, Pamela Smigiel, if they
could conduct a paternity test. Those tests showed he was not the father and that the child belonged to a
man Smigiel had an affair with, according to Luzerne County court records.

Now, the Superior Court has ruled Doran doesn't have to keep paying $400 a month in child support, a
decision that alters the legal landscape in Pennsylvania paternity cases.
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Fathers want to know if
they're the biological parent of their child

DW-World, Germany, December 12, 2004

Father's rights groups in Germany are fighting to retain their right to have secret paternity tests
without a mother's permission. They say it is the only way to combat "paternity fraud."

In a debate over paternity tests in Germany -- father's rights groups are lobbying to block proposed
legislation banning secret tests without the mother's permission -- advocates are employing increasingly
alarmist arguments. One group, the Network for Paternity Tests, claims on its Web site that making the tests
illegal would lead to an increase in incest between half brothers and sisters who don't know they're
related. More ..

Calls for Investigation into Why Man Was Ordered to Pay Child Support for A Non-Existent Child

U.S. Newswire, December 9, 2004

DALLAS, Dec. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Steve Barreras paid child support for a 5-year-old daughter who his
ex-wife claimed was his. Despite never being able to actually see the child, Barreras did pay $20,000 in
child support as required by the court. The problem is -- the child has been declared nonexistent by an
Albuquerque judge. "There is no child ...," she said.
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"Supreme Court rules in favour of dads"

The Toronto Star, from Canadian Press, June 6, 2003

OTTAWA Mothers who arbitrarily refuse to acknowledge the fathers of their children shouldn't be allowed
sole power to name their children, Canada's highest court says. More..

The sperm that got away

Sunday Life Magazine (Australia), By Amy Cooper, August 18,2002

Men say they need protection from a new predator the women who target them exclusively for their sperm.
Amy Cooper reports

Around the world, the battle of the sexes is taking a new turn. American millionaire Steve Bing acknowledges
he's the father of English model and actress Elizabeth Hurley's son only after DNA tests. In Sweden, a court
orders Igor Lehnberg to pay child support to the lesbian couple who used his donated sperm to have three
children. Tennis star Boris Becker accuses a Russian model of stealing his sperm during an encounter in a
broom cupboard.

Mick Jagger is ordered to pay child support after tests prove he is the dad of model Luciana Morad's son.
And in the US, there's the world's first "paternity fraud" lawsuit: Peter Wallis accuses his long-term
partner, Kellie Smith, of "intentionally acquiring and misusing" his sperm after she became pregnant when
she was supposed to be on the pill.

The ingredient these stories share is becoming as influential as drugs, dollars or oil. It stirs up
conflict, divides loyalties and drives men and women to desperate acts. For a slightly absurd-looking
microscopic organism with a wriggly tail, sperm has a lot to answer for.
More..

A men's rights group has called for mandatory paternity testing
of all babies after government figures revealed almost 600 instances of
men compelled to financially support children they did not father.

Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586
cases of men successfully using DNA testing to show they were not biologically
related to children they had been financially supporting, the federal government
has revealed to The Australian.
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Paternity Fraud Case
Philippines

Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Ray Alan Drilon has annulled the marriage
of a Negrense couple after a DNA test showed that the child borne by the wife
was not the biological offspring of the husband who works abroad.

The family court judge ruled that the marriage of the couple, whose names
are being withheld by the DAILY STAR on the request of the court, was null and
void.

Due to fraud committed by the wife in getting her overseas worker husband
to marry her, properties acquired during their marriage are awarded in favor
of the husband, the judge said in his decision, a copy of which was furnished
the DAILY STAR yesterday.

The judge also declared that since the overseas worker is not the biological,
much less the legitimate father of the child of the woman, the Civil Registrar
is ordered to change the surname of the child to the mother’s maiden name and
remove the name of the plaintiff as father of the child.
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Unfaithful mother fined $120,170

Courier-Mail NewspaperAustralia

Unfaithful mother fined $120,170

From correspondents in Rio de JaneiroAgence France-Presse

September 18, 2007

A BRAZILIAN woman has been ordered by the country's Supreme Court to pay
a hefty fine to her husband for failing to mention that he was not the
father of two of their children.

The Rio de Janeiro woman, whose identity was not disclosed, was ordered
to pay her husband over $US100,000 ($120,170 Australian Dollars) for having hidden from him for
almost two decades that the children in question were fathered by a lover,
the court's offices said yesterday.

The husband also had sought damages from his wife's lover, the court
said.

CHICAGO (AP) A woman accused of using her lover's sperm to impregnate herself
without his knowledge can be held liable for the unwitting father's emotional pain, the Illinois
Appellate Court has ruled.

In the ruling released Wednesday, a three-judge panel reinstated part of a lawsuit against Sharon
Irons, a doctor from Olympia Fields. The ruling sends the case back to Cook County Circuit Court.

Irons was sued by her former lover, Chicago family physician Richard O. Phillips, who accused her of a
"calculated, profound personal betrayal" of him after a brief affair they had six years ago. More ..

Australian Father Wins Paternity Fraud Case

West Australian News

21st December 2005

A pregnant woman has a duty of care not to tell a sexual partner he
is the father of her unborn child if it is possible another man is the
real father a District Court judge has ruled.

And mother-of-three, Kellie Gray, of Pinjarra, was negligent in not
having a paternity test done as soon as her son was born, Judge John
Wisbey said in his judgement in a damages action by a father who turned
out not to be the father.

Rodney Macdonald, of Kewdale, claimed damages of about $70,000AUD from
Ms Gray on the grounds that he was tricked into believing he was the
father of her son. He gave up a well paid mining job to move to Perth to
be nearer the child.
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Fathering Magazine

A Woman's Right to be Criminal

December 5, 2002

I read a USA Today article on child support by Martin Kasindorf entitled,
Men wage battle on 'paternity fraud'. Paternity fraud is when a woman
names the wrong man as a father for the purpose of forcing him to pay child
support. The words 'paternity fraud' were in quotes as if they referred to someone's
questionable characterization rather than a straightforward fact. This might
have moved me to let out a long sigh except that I knew it would not
have been worth the trouble. I know from experience that 'paternity fraud' would
not have been in quotes unless we were being prepared for some unadulterated
bullshit. More..